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Hi @plujon,
I usually remove them on all my droplets. Having said that, you should be able to create a disabled file for cloud-init which should resolve your issues without actually removing cloud-init. SSH to your droplet and run the following :
touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled
Then try to restart your network and see if it’s still taking some time to restart.
Restart, KDSys
Disabling cloud-init worked for me but wasn’t a solution. It seems the issue was also related to a random nubmer generation. I could skip the process by pressing lots of random keys on the recovery console.
Following this post I was able to find an automated solution: https://handyman.dulare.com/long-linux-boot-time-haveged-to-help/
sudo apt install haveged
sudo systemctl enable haveged
sudo systemctl start haveged
The upgrade process seems to leave the original version of /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py in place and then adds the new version as DataSourceDigitalOcean.py.distrib which doesn’t work with the new version of cloudinit putting the config into a fallback state.
What fixed it for me was to replace the file and restart.
sudo mv /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py.old
sudo mv /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py.distrib /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py